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...urging of Vice President George Bush, the Army, Air Force and Navy have provided about $21 million worth of operational and maintenance support, including high-tech electronic detection equipment on loan to the Bahamian government as part of "Operation Bat." This was a three-year-old effort to intercept drug smugglers on ships and in aircraft. U.S. military maneuvers in the Caribbean are often used to target suspected drug smugglers, tracking them until civilian police or the Coast Guard can make an arrest. In one such sweep, the 1985 "Hat Trick I" operation, some $27 million worth of drugs...
...defendant, said Federal Prosecutor John Douglass, was nothing short of a walking "gold mine" of U.S. intelligence capabilities. He knew how the U.S. was able to intercept the Soviet Union's "command and control" communications, which contained military instructions from "the highest level" of the Kremlin to the next echelon of authority, according to the defendant's former supervisor. He was familiar with a top-secret program for processing encoded Soviet messages and aware that it was being given an "upgraded capability" that would maintain its usefulness into the 1990s. He was the author of a 60-page "encyclopedia...
...secret National Security Agency, which specializes in gathering electronic intelligence. Pelton's espionage trial opened last week in Baltimore's U.S. district court and is expected to conclude this week. Observers were amazed by the Government's willingness to discuss publicly the various means used by the U.S. to intercept and analyze Soviet communications, spy-craft capabilities that had never been openly acknowledged. Said James Bamford, who wrote the authoritative 1982 study of NSA (The Puzzle Palace): "This is the furthest the Government has gone in any case...
...estimated 1,200 students. The Government also maintains huge computer databases with information on individuals suspected of having radical, anti-U.S. associations. Meanwhile, the supersecret National Security Agency uses the world's most technologically advanced surveillance techniques to eavesdrop on questionable telephone calls and radio communications abroad and intercept and decode suspicious telex messages. To conform to U.S. privacy laws, the intercepts take place outside U.S. borders. But as the rest of the world painfully knows, determined terrorists are very hard to stop...
...Crimson's final goal came on a boneheaded Bulldog play later in the stanza. With a crowd milling in front of the net, a Blue defender cleverly tried to slip the ball to Harthun--allowing forward Electa Sevier to intercept the pass and pop it in for goal number three...